The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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